Term Name: transcription cis-regulatory region binding
Synonyms: bacterial-type RNA polymerase regulatory region DNA binding, bacterial-type RNA polymerase transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding, eubacterial-type RNA polymerase regulatory region DNA binding, eubacterial-type RNA polymerase regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding, regulatory region DNA binding, transcription regulatory region DNA binding, transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding
Definition: Binding to a specific sequence of DNA that is part of a regulatory region that controls transcription of that section of the DNA. The transcribed region might be described as a gene, cistron, or operon.
Ontology: GO: Molecular Function [GO:0000976]    QuickGO    AmiGO

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is a type of: sequence-specific double-stranded DNA binding transcription regulatory region nucleic acid binding
has subtype: cis-regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding core promoter sequence-specific DNA binding intronic transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding mitochondrial promoter sequence-specific DNA binding plastid promoter transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding purine-rich negative regulatory element binding RNA polymerase I transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding RNA polymerase II transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding RNA polymerase III transcription regulatory region sequence-specific DNA binding transcription termination site sequence-specific DNA binding
inverse has_part: DNA-binding transcription activator activity DNA-binding transcription factor activity DNA-binding transcription repressor activity
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of transcription regulatory region DNA binding
positively regulated by: positive regulation of transcription regulatory region DNA binding
regulated by: regulation of transcription regulatory region DNA binding